Chapter 652: Jiangyang Night Battle

However, it is said that the 100,000 Sui troops who went south along the coast, although they formulated a strategy of attacking Jiangyangcang at night at sea, using this as a bait to ambush the reinforcements of Jiangdu City halfway, and taking the opportunity to seize the city, but when they reached the mouth of the Yangtze River, they encountered a sudden storm and had to anchor on Benansha Island in the East China Sea to rest.

When Yang Tong received Du Fuwei's report, the center of the storm shifted from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the north, fortunately, when the storm came, it had arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Fortunately, due to the timely evasion of the fleet, this sudden storm did not cause casualties to the Sui army. It is a pity that there are no regular ports and wharves on Beesan Island, and some of the hazy ships that have not had time to tie up have been washed away.

However, it is not without good news, Du Fuwei took advantage of the great victory to come to the city and launched a fierce offensive against Jiangdu Quanjiao County, and Shan Xiongxin suffered heavy losses in Liyang, and the troops were seriously insufficient, as a last resort, not only withdrew 10,000 troops from Jiangdu City, but also transferred 2,000 soldiers from Jiangyang Cang, and Jiangyang Cang and Jiangdu City, which were halved in strength, naturally reduced the pressure on the Sui army by half.

After the storm, after day and night sailing, the Great Sui fleet finally arrived safely at the destination of Jiangdu, but Jiangdu City was far away from the Yangtze River, and Jiangyang County, the closest city to the Yangtze River, was under the rule of Jiangdu County.

Jiangyang is only a small county in Jiangdu County, and the county soldiers have also been evacuated by Shan Xiongxin, and there is not a single soldier stationed at present, but the Jiangyang warehouse close to the county seat is a strategic place for the Wei State, and all food and military supplies are stored in the Jiangyang warehouse.

As the logistics center of the army, Jiangyang Cang was built into a city with a circumference of fifteen miles by Li Mi, surrounded by tall and strong walls, and there were nearly 1,000 large and small warehouses in the city, storing millions of grains and piles of armor and equipment, as well as millions of silk and silk cloth.

After Li Mi defeated Yu Wenhua that year, Yu Wenhua and the thousands of large ships and materials transported from Jiangdu City to the north did not fall into Li Mi's hands, and Li Mi except for gold, silver, jewelry and other valuables, the rest of the materials were stored in the Jiangyang warehouse. The money, grain, and materials that Fang Xuanzao recently seized from the Jiangnan Shi clan are also concentrated here. Therefore, the specific number in Jiangyang's warehouse, I'm afraid Li Mi and Fang Xuanzao don't know how much.

Jiangyang Cang is currently garrisoned by 3,000 soldiers, and the main general is Xu Shiren, Li Mi's confidant. This person was originally a ranger in Guanzhong, a man with both civil and military skills, and lofty ambitions, as early as the reign of Emperor Wen Renshou had become Li Mi's disciple, and he and Wang Bodang together learned from Li Mi how to use soldiers with an open mind, and regarded himself as a student. Maybe it's talent, or maybe it's because of Wang Bodang's full guidance, so Xu Shiren's archery skills are quite clever, second only to Yang Wang Bodang in a hundred steps in the Wei State.

He is not only skilled in archery, but also as careful and prudent as Wang Bodang, Li Mi repeatedly told him not to be careless when he went north, and he did this quite well.

For the Great Wei Dynasty, Jiangdu County was the most important place, and when it was reduced to this county, Jiangdu City and Jiangyangcang were tied for the top. The importance of Jiangdu City lies in the families of the soldiers, and the importance of Jiangyang Cang lies in the grain and grass provided by Li Mi's army.

As early as above the sea, Yang Tong and his staff formulated a strategy of attacking Jiangyangcang at night, but because of the storm two days late, as well as the fact that Du Fuwei's troops were in Quanjiao County, the capital of Jiangjiang, and Shan Xiongxin drew troops, the tactics were adjusted in a timely manner. Whether or not Jiangyangcang can be completely taken is related to the Sui army's plan to unify the south, and it is also related to the post-war reconstruction, and its importance is far higher than that of Jiangdu City.

By the time the fleet reached its established position, it was already completely dark, and the fleet stopped at a sandbar peninsula formed by the alluvial water of the river fifteen miles east of Jiangyang City, and groups of Sui troops and war horses came ashore one after another.

The Sui army had two days and two nights to avoid the storm on Beensha Island, and the soldiers and horses had been well rested, and their physical strength had been restored, especially the war horses on this trip were all Liaodong horses, which were highly adaptable and recovered faster than people, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was not affected too much.

Yang Tong stood on the top floor of the 'Qilin Ship', and used a clairvoyant mirror to look at Jiangyang Cangcheng more than ten miles away, only to see that there was a faint blue and bright ribbon on the horizon, which was the dim light of the moonlight reflected by the river. However, Jiangyang Cangcheng was blocked by the county seat in the east, and only the dark outline of the county seat was faintly visible, and the fire of the county seat was clearly visible because it was not long after nightfall.

His task is to appease the people of Jiangnan in order to consolidate the rule of the Sui army in Jiangnan, the Great Sui Dynasty in order to bridge the rift between the hearts of the north and the south, Yang Guang first married the Xiao Empress of the Lanling Xiao clan as his wife, and accepted two princesses of the dead country of Nanchen as concubines, and spent ten years in Jiangnan. During his ten years as the governor of Yangzhou, he collected a large number of outstanding children of the Jiangnan scholars on the grounds of sorting out classics and compiling "Changzhou Jade Mirror" and "Ouyu Tuzhi", and until he ascended the throne as emperor, almost all of these Jiangnan people who had a good impression of the Great Sui Dynasty were reused, and they ran around for the imperial court and became the core force of the imperial court to consolidate the rule of Jiangnan. Yang Guang's solid foundation in the south of the Yangtze River also laid a solid foundation for Yang Tong to unify the south.

Tonight, the main general in charge of attacking Jiangyang Cang is Niu Jinda, he has led 20,000 Xiaoguo troops to the direction of Jiangyang Cang, as long as the Xuanjia Army and Shura Wei who seized the gate open the city gate, 5,000 cavalry will directly enter Cangcheng, and the task of the other 15,000 soldiers is to besiege the city, and above the water, it will be responsible for the naval officers and men who take small five-tooth ships and ships, so to speak, as long as it is completed as scheduled, the Wei army will not have a single fish.

There are three gates in Jiangyang Cangcheng, there are south gates and north gates on the land, and the east side is the water gate facing the ditch, every night, the iron fence gate of the water gate as thick as an arm will be lowered, and the suspension bridge of the two gates on the land will also be pulled up, and the moat surrounds the entire Cangcheng. The patrol soldiers in the city patrolled back and forth as if they were facing the enemy because of Du Fuwei's arrival at the border of Jiangdu.

A thousand Xuanjia soldiers and more than 300 Shura guards had already infiltrated a dense forest a hundred paces away, and these male and female soldiers were all highly skilled in martial arts, led by Yin Mingyue and Yang Qinfang.

As Yang Tong slowly turned to the court, Yin Mingyue, as the 'personal guard chief', rarely appeared in the war, but it did not mean that she had nothing to do, let alone been snubbed by Yang Tong, on the contrary, she was canonized by Yang Dong as General Feifengwei, with the same military rank as the Twelve Guards General, in charge of the Shura Wei and other forbidden palace female soldiers, and her status was not lower than that of the male generals, but she was indifferent and low-key, and she was transferred to the background, responsible for the training of female soldiers and the Xuanjia Army, and she was almost all taken care of by the two Heavenly Son pro-armies.

Yin Mingyue is the most proud disciple of the Red Whisk Girl, although the two do not have the name of master and apprentice, but there is a master and apprentice, she learned a martial art from the Red Whisk Girl, the Red Whisk Girl's martial arts and the wide open and closed, the momentum of the battlefield is just an extreme, pay attention to light and dexterous, sharp and inadequate, but it is suitable for women to make the combat skills. What's more, because the Red Whisk Girl is a dancing girl killer trained by Yang Su, she is good at hiding her killing skills in her dancing skills. Yin Mingyue, who was born in Jiangmen, combined the characteristics of the two, and under the guidance of the Red Whisk Girl, she created a set of sharp and gorgeous martial arts.

Assassination is Yin Mingyue's forte, so Yang Tong handed over the task of night raid to her and Yang Qinfang, who was in the same school.

Yin Mingyue, dressed in night clothes, crawled in a bush, silently watching the patrol soldiers in the city, she observed for almost half an hour, and had already figured out the rules of the patrol soldiers, Yang Qinfang pointed to the shining water, and said softly: "General Yin, we can dive through the sluice." ”

Yin Mingyue shook her head, "Luoyang's water gate is an iron fence, this is to allow the water to flow freely, and there are barbs, spear tips and other sharp things under the fence that reach the stone slab at the bottom of the water, and the gap at the bottom is extremely small, and it is impossible to pass at all, and the water gate of Jiangyang Cangcheng must be the same." Even though we both had swords that sharpened like clay, the sound was unavoidable. There are a lot of patrol soldiers tonight, no different from wartime, and the water gate must be heavily guarded, and the people under the water can't see the situation on the water clearly. ”

Yang Qinfang was convinced: "It's still General Yin who is careful, then we will climb the wall and climb it." ”

Yin Ming was silent, she saw that the patrol post at the head of the city had walked away, and the crescent moon in the world pierced a thick cloud, so she beckoned to the thirty selected soldiers, "You come with me!" ”

The soldiers lifted three planks, three herringbone wooden ladders with a height of three feet and rushed towards the city wall, and the other soldiers also acted one after another, and when they were more than thirty steps away from the city wall, hundreds of soldiers quickly lay on the ground, all of them were dressed in night clothes, and they could not be seen at all on the city, and there were many of them, so lying on the ground together, forming a large shadow, even if the careful people noticed, they would not think that it was a person.

The moat was two feet wide, and the planks brought with them were tied with a rope at one end, and several people worked together to erect them, and then slowly lowered the ropes, and the planks reached the opposite bank silently, forming a five-foot-wide passage. As soon as the wooden planks were laid, Yin Mingyue quickly led the thirty soldiers to carry the herringbone ladder to the opposite bank, and then separated to the two sides of the wall to make way for the soldiers behind.

After waiting for a while, the patrol soldiers had already walked elsewhere, the soldiers quickly opened the herringbone ladder, Yin Mingyue and the five soldiers immediately climbed up from both sides of the ladder, and when they climbed to the top, someone followed closely, and in an instant, there were six people on each side of each ladder.

The other five soldiers saw that Yin Mingyue did not move, and they all hid behind the battlements in the same way, and they could be clearly seen from below, but the city was dark under the lights, and they could not see these people outside the wall at all.

At this time, another soldier patrolled here, they didn't find anything abnormal, someone yawned, scolded and said: "After a few circles, tired to death, Lao Tzu really wants to find a place to sleep." ”

A cold voice said: "The general has defeated Liyang and suffered heavy losses, Du Fuwei has already killed the whole Jiao City, and the whole county is full of rumors, grass and trees. At this critical moment, if you dare to be lazy, it is a small matter to be beaten, and it is a big matter to lose your head. General Xu has already issued a strict order: if one person neglects his duty and one team is affected, there will be brothers to take over in another hour, and everyone will cheer up and stick to this hour. Whoever dares to be lazy, don't blame me for being unkind. ”

This man is obviously a long man, and he speaks with great authority. The crowd did not dare to say anything more and continued to patrol to the west.

Yin Mingyue hooked the battlements with one hand at this time, and the other took out a small crossbow with exquisite workmanship from the skin bag, there were three crossbow slots, the range was only more than twenty steps, and the arrow cluster was coated with the poison that sealed the throat with blood, once the arrow was hit, he would die if he couldn't even shout.

Seeing that she was ready to make a move, the other five people also aimed at the target in the same way, as long as Yin Mingyue released the arrow, they would each kill a target.

Yin Mingyue let out a whistle, and the six people immediately moved, only to see six cold lights flash, and five or six crossbow arrows shot out of their hands at the same time.

There was only a muffled grunt, and six of the patrol soldiers fell to the ground at the same time, and before they could react, six more crossbow arrows shot them to the ground, and in an instant, the ten patrol soldiers fell to the ground almost simultaneously and died.

Yin Mingyue climbed up the battlements with five soldiers, jumped lightly into the city, and four others followed, they quickly stripped off the clothes of the ten Wei soldiers, took off their waist cards, and threw their bodies off the city wall, they put on Wei military uniforms and turned into patrol soldiers.

At this time, it was already the fourth watch, and the city seemed very quiet, and there were two hundred patrol sentinels on the fifteen-mile-long city wall, and there were twenty of them in total, and each team was responsible for a section of the city wall. Yin Mingyue occupied the section between the southern city and the eastern city, which was about half a mile long, and when they threw the ten corpses off the city wall, the Xuanjia army and the Shura guard climbed to the top of the city one after another, and in a short time, 1,300 male and female soldiers all went to the city.

They were divided into two routes, 300 Shura Wei led by Yang Qinfang were responsible for snatching the drawbridge winch, and 1,000 Xuanjia soldiers were led down by Yin Mingyue to occupy the south gate, 1,000 soldiers held horizontal knives and shields, and followed Yin Mingyue to run quickly to the city. ”

"Changing the Guard, you can go back to sleep!" Wang Xiongdan, who served as a deputy general, replied.

Yin Mingyue didn't wait for the other party to react, the ten-round repeater that was already in his hand had already been launched, and a scream suddenly sounded in the night sky, and at this time, the screams in the city also rang one after another, and the piercing alarm bells also rang a lot.

The alarm bell of "Dangdang" sounded throughout the city, and it was also transmitted to the Sui army outside the city by the night wind, and Niu Jinda, who was responsible for entering the city to receive him, led five thousand Xiaoguo troops to wait for a long time, and when he heard the alarm, he raised the Mo knife high and shouted: "Soldiers, the meritorious service is tonight, follow me to kill it!" ”

The 5,000 cavalry moved in the direction of the south gate, and another 15,000 soldiers with torches separated on both sides, following the pre-arranged task to encircle the Jiangyang Cangcheng. The horse's hooves clasped the earth with a thunderous sound that almost shook the earth.

At this time, Shurawei had already occupied the city tower, and the drawbridge was quickly lowered, and a bunch of fires were ignited to guide the Sui army outside the city.

Xu Shiren, the general of Jiangyang Cang, also heard the warning bell in the south of the city, and saw the fire on the city, knowing that it was the Sui army that had infiltrated the city, he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly led five hundred personal soldiers to support, and the soldiers on both sides soon started a bloody battle at the gate of the city. The Xuanjia army is one of the best in the world, extremely brave, they not only occupy the numerical advantage, but also have the support of the Shura guards in the city, and the battle for the city gate is like a one-sided slaughter. However, the Wei general Xu Shiren was clever in archery, and he cast cold arrows in the back, and every arrow would have a Xuanjia soldier fall down from the arrow, and every arrow would pierce the throat of the Sui soldier without exception.

Wang Xiongdan was immediately furious, this Wei Xuanjia army was all his soldiers, and they were all composed of Sui military captains, all of them were future officers of the Great Sui army, and every loss made him heartbroken.

He roared wildly, jumped on the war horse of a Wei soldier, waved his sword, the head of the cavalry flew, he snatched the spear, waved his arm hard, the spear broke through the air, like a lightning bolt flew towards Xu Shiren.

Xu Shiren stretched out his bow and arrows, and was aiming at Yang Qinfang, who was commanding the Shura Guard in the city, and didn't notice the spear that stabbed for a while, and when he reacted, he couldn't dodge, the spear pierced through his chest, and the tip of the spear pierced out, and the huge impact made him soar into the air, and then fell heavily to the ground.

Wang Xiong stepped forward immediately, hatefully beheaded Xu Shiren, and the city gate was also opened by the Xuanjia army at this time, and the cavalry outside the city rushed into the city like a raging tide, and they danced their horses and guns to rush to the Wei soldiers who rushed to the street after hearing the news.

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When Niu Jinda launched an attack, Su Dingfang, who was in charge of capturing Jiangyang County, also led 10,000 Xiaoguo soldiers into the city with the assistance of thousands of Xuanjia Army soldiers.

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